High-Heel Wedding Church

Coordinates: 23°22′40.3″N 120°08′55.5″E / 23.377861°N 120.148750°E / 23.377861; 120.148750

High-Heel Wedding Church
高跟鞋教堂
Basic information
Location Budai, Chiayi County, Taiwan
Architectural description
Architectural type Church
Completed 10 January 2016
Construction cost US$686,000[1]
Capacity 100 people[2]

The High-Heel Wedding Church (Chinese: 高跟鞋教堂; pinyin: Gāogēnxié Jiàotáng) is a church in Budai Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan. It is managed by Southwest Coast National Scenic Area Administration.[3][4]

History

The church was constructed to commemorate the blackfoot disease outbreak in the 1950s in Taiwan. The construction was completed on 10 January 2016 and was opened for trial in February 2016.[5] It was officially opened on 23 July 2016.[6] Later in the same year, the church received the Guinness World Records certification as the world's largest high-heel shoe-shaped structure.[7] In 2017, the Tourism Bureau planned to upgrade the facilities around the church and launch a series of promotion for the church.[8]

Architecture

The church is shaped like a high-heel shoe 17.76 meters in height, 11.91 meters in width, and 25.16 meters in length. It is composed of over 300 pieces of blue-tinted glass.[9]

Events

The church is famous to be used as wedding venue.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Masuma Ahuja, CNN (15 January 2016). "Taiwan: The church shaped like a giant shoe". CNN.
  2. ↑ "Latin American Herald Tribune - Cinderella's Shoe becomes Giant, Glass Church in Taiwan".
  3. ↑ "Taiwan seeking record title for 'high-heel church'".
  4. ↑ Spencer, David (1 December 2017). "Taiwan's Top 10 man-made marvels". Taiwan News. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Taiwanese town builds a high heel shoe shaped church to attract female worshippers". Mail Online. 11 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "'Cinderella' church opens to tourists".
  7. 1 2 Lee, Hsin-yin (9 September 2017). "Tourism Bureau trying to revive charm of 'Cinderella Shoe'". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "Tourism Bureau is planning promotions for 'Cinderella Shoe'". Taipei Times. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "Chiayi planning to use electric buses in 'high-heel church' town".


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